Photos: Totally weird images of the week

CHRISTOF STACHE, AFP/Getty Images08.17.2012

A man stands next to typical decoration figures for the upcoming Oktoberfest beer festival at the Theresienwiese in Munich, southern Germany, on August 17, 2012. This year’s edition of the world’s biggest beer festival Oktoberfest will open on September 22 and run until October 7, 2012.

CHRISTOF STACHE
/ AFP/Getty Images

A Sri Lankan Tamil Hindu devotee is held up by hooks inserted into his skin during the Adippura religious festival in Colombo on August 11, 2012. Tamils who are mainly followers of Hinduism are the main minority community in the island which is emerging from nearly four decades of ethnic conflict which had claimed up to 100,000 lives.LAKRUWAN WANNIARACHCHI
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Elvis Presley tribute artists gather around Elvis fan Yvonne Robertson of Windsor, Ontario, Canada during Elvis Week at Graceland in Memphis, Tennessee on August 14, 2012. This year’s Elvis Week marks the 35th anniversary of the death of the King of Rock ‘n’ roll, and organizers expect it will be the largest ever.ROBERT MACPHERSON
/ AFP/Getty Images

Andrew Noble (C), British vice-ambassador to Germany, poses with wax likenesses of Britain’s Prince William (R) and his wife Kate at the British embassy in Berlin on August 16, 2012. The wax figures will be on display at the Madame Tussaud’s Wax Museum in Berlin by August 17, 2012.BARBARA SAX
/ AFP/Getty Images

People attempt to climb greased and slippery poles, to which prizes and flags are attached, to celebrate Indonesia’s Independence Day in Jakarta, August 17, 2012. Indonesia marked the 67th anniversary of its freedom from Dutch rule on August 17.BAY ISMOYO
/ AFP/Getty Images

Two Bodies pose for pictures during “Bodies ... The Exhibition” Unveiling of a Huge Heart Statue at South Street Seaport on August 15, 2012 in New York City.Fernando Leon
/ Getty Images for Bodies...The Ex

Yuan Zi (“Chubby”) a Chinese panda sucks an ice cube flavoured with honey and apple in his enclosure at Beauval zoo in Saint-Aignan central-western France, on August 17, 2012. The animals left their breeding centre in southwestern China for a 10-year stay in France, on a loan sealed after years of top-level negotiations.ALAIN JOCARD
/ AFP/Getty Images

An activist of the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) pose outside a shop of French luxury brand Hermes in Hong Kong on August 17, 2012. PETA called on the company to end the sale of exotic-animal skins, raising awareness among tourists and shoppers about exotic animals being skinned alive, beaten to death and killed for their skin in other cruel ways.PHILIPPE LOPEZ
/ AFP/Getty Images

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